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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

90. THE DEER AND HER FRIENDS
Perry 305 (Syntipas 20)

A deer had fallen ill and was resting on the grassy plain. When the other animals came to see her, they ate up all the grass in her pasture. As a result, when the deer recovered from her illness, she ended up dying since her pasture had come to an end.
The fable shows that there is no benefit in having lots of foolish friends; in fact, it can be a disaster.

Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs. Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.